Washington Post congressional reporter Rachael Bade said on ABC’s “This Week” that Democrats are telling her privately that Pelosi’s strategy on impeachment was a total failure.

She has absolutely no power in the Senate or common sense inside her head, so who could have seen this coming?

The more the Democrats try to pretend this impeachment is strictly partisan, the more they resemble a clown show.

“She and Chuck Schumer set out to, number one, try to get a commitment from McConnell on witnesses, firsthand witnesses to have them testify in a Senate trial. She also said she wanted to see a resolution about, you know, how the whole proceedings would be governed. She got neither of those.”

Bade said:

“And in fact there might have even been more news focused on those things if everybody wasn’t asking ‘what is Nancy Pelosi doing for the articles?’ So I do the think there are a lot of Democrats who, while not going on the record and saying it, a lot of them had concern about this.”

Although Pelosi herself has defended her decision to wait, host George Stephanopoulos told his panel, before turning to Bade, that there has been “a lot of skepticism on Capitol Hill.”

“Yeah, definitely,” said Bade. “She was clearly putting a positive spin on what a lot of Democrats have privately said was a failed strategy.”

As for revelations that have come about since the delay, such as former National Security Advisor John Bolton expressing his willingness to testify, Bade argued that those things “would have happened regardless.”